tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post3694845249787609031..comments2023-11-18T13:07:27.303-08:00Comments on Indie Author: 1999 Called: It Wants Its Attitudes About Self-Publishing BackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-52475878644118384052009-04-12T23:03:00.000-07:002009-04-12T23:03:00.000-07:00Excellent article!I have been on boths sides as a ...Excellent article!<BR/>I have been on boths sides as a doubleday author "Defending Our Lives, getting away from domestic violence & staying safe and then as a self-published author. <BR/><BR/>I probably got lucky when Borders purchased 20,000 copies of my self published book "Moving Out Moving On when a relationship goes wrong at a no return price. From there I sold more copies Susan Murphy-Milanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02904531212289535519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-91323373340228664882009-04-10T09:36:00.000-07:002009-04-10T09:36:00.000-07:00Patti -You seem to forget, not ALL books are made ...Patti -<BR/>You seem to forget, not ALL books are made available in audiobook formats, nor through Books For The Blind.<BR/><BR/>If a given book IS available in audio format, the print impaired would much prefer to buy that than have their ebook version read aloud to them by TTS. TTS does not make an audio recording of the book, as you say. It just uses word-recognition technology to enable a April L. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06450879359445096462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-92031101880019566032009-04-10T09:03:00.000-07:002009-04-10T09:03:00.000-07:00This is beside the point, and maybe you've blogged...This is beside the point, and maybe you've blogged about this elsewhere, but since you commented at the Guardian:<BR/><BR/>The one that's quietly working behind the scenes with the Authors Guild to get the default Text To Speech feature disabled on the Kindle 2, thereby depriving the print-impaired of equal access to ebooks, based on ludicrous claims that the audio provided by TTS constitutes a "pattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462514090894574521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-20221230210864947492009-04-08T05:34:00.000-07:002009-04-08T05:34:00.000-07:00Excellent post. My husband self-published and now ...Excellent post. My husband self-published and now gets instant rejections from agents who tell him that self-published authors don't get picked up. However, he knows several people who self-published and whose books then got picked up by Simon & Schuster, Tor and others. He remains hopeful.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188517138573721755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-24632903738109595812009-04-08T05:20:00.000-07:002009-04-08T05:20:00.000-07:00Excellent post. I think one of the reasons the pub...Excellent post. I think one of the reasons the publishing world is struggling is that it is deeply conservative and doesn't have the ability to adapt. I've just blogged bout this here: http://www.webvivant.com/broken-publishing.html (and linked to your post).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04338561024361896514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-38126106518926126162009-04-07T14:45:00.000-07:002009-04-07T14:45:00.000-07:00Hear, hear! So many writers (and would-be writers...Hear, hear! So many writers (and would-be writers) are sheepish apologists for the mega-conglomerate publishing industry.<BR/><BR/>Funny how the industry can't cash in on self-publishing, but what they don't seem to realize is that self-publishing is for us, not for them. <BR/><BR/>If they could, they'd have lobbyists in Washington banning Indie publishers from taking away their market share.<George LaCashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04892762201795566864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-82097954400261217222009-04-07T11:56:00.000-07:002009-04-07T11:56:00.000-07:00Thank you, April, for this valuable reminder! ... ...Thank you, April, for this valuable reminder! ... Your antagonist in this essay, who has no faith in independent publishing, left out a few essential notes in his reply. There was a hilarious and telling article, a few years ago, in the New York Times, about a 70+ year old author who had a big-name agent and big-name publisher. What were they doing to publicize his book? ... Nothing. Except to Michael Pastorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03086136908870273850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782713127824478176.post-37831490350597755692009-04-07T11:27:00.000-07:002009-04-07T11:27:00.000-07:00Great article! It amazes me how arrogant the agent...Great article! It amazes me how arrogant the agents are let alone the big house publishing companies, especially in this day and age! They are either ignoring the success of POD and indie authors, or are just plain stupid! One more reason I am going POD rather than deal with these tools!RhythmHippyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03002514297809663501noreply@blogger.com